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Manchester researchers launch major UKRI funded project to understand “air inequalities” A team of researchers at The University of Manchester has been awarded UKRI funding for a pioneering interdisciplinary project examining how communities experience and understand air pollution in ever...

📢Major new UKRI-funded research project:

'Air Spaces: Getting the Measure of Air' involves researchers from across UoM & community partners to explore air pollution inequalities

Builds on a great pilot project. So excited to see where this research takes us! www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/m...

Image text relates to a nominee for the Sociology Sage Prize 2026 In ‘Siblings and the Bereaved Self’, Laura Towers questions how the death and subsequent loss of a brother or sister affects the way that surviving siblings (continue to) construct their sense of self.

Nominee for the Sociology Sage Prize 2026

In ‘Siblings and the Bereaved Self’, Laura Towers questions how the death and subsequent loss of a brother or sister affects the way that surviving siblings (continue to) construct their sense of self.

Read the full article below.
doi.org/10.1177/0038...

SEMINAR: Relational understandings of life, relationships and moments that matter (Kaisa Kuurne & @saraelden.bsky.social)

📅1-3pm 21 April 2026
📌Room 5.205 Uni Place
☕Tea/coffee from 1pm

Special double seminar from two visiting researchers - all welcome! events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

This new book features writing from @helenholmes.bsky.social on the waste crisis; @briony.bsky.social on gender; & Vanessa May on migration (& editing duties!). All welcome to the book launch!

@sophierwoodward.bsky.social @briony.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social
@maisie-tom.bsky.social @ltowers728.bsky.social owers728.bsky.social @helenholmes.bsky.social
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The Morgan Centre: Key concepts in creative methods and everyday lives research - YouTube To mark 20 years of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives at the University of Manchester, we are pleased to present a new series of videos in w...

📺WATCH - new videos added to our 20th anniversary key concepts series:

🐶Animals & Social Life
👥 Sibling relationships
👩🏽‍👧🏽‍👦🏽Family practices
♻️Consumption & everyday life
🦉What is ageing?

Thanks to everybody who helped make these, and we hope you enjoy them!
youtube.com/playlist?lis...

VACANCY (1 of 2...)

Lecturer in Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social with a qualitative or theoretical research expertise in the fields of political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class.

Please share - thanks!
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

VACANCY (2 of 2...)

Lecturer in Sociology @uomsociology.bsky.social with research expertise in the field(s) of racial inequalities, anti-racism and theoretical debates in ‘race’.

Please share - thanks!
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration and Citizenship - Bridget Anderson Please join us for the University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026, followed by a drinks reception.

University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026:

‘Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration & Citizenship’
Prof Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol)

📅 3.30–5pm, Thurs 12 Feb 2026 (followed by drinks reception)

All welcome!
@britsoci.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-bor...

University of Manchester Sociology Annual Lecture 2026:

‘Beyond Borders: Rethinking Migration and Citizenship’
Prof Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol)

📅 3.30–5pm, Thurs 12 Feb 2026

@uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/university...

🎁New article by @sophierwoodward.bsky.social on the sociology of unwanted gifts:

Dormant Gifts: Animating the Imagined and Narrated Pasts and Futures of Gifts

@uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.3167/ee.2...

Delighted that our work on #datingapps and viral risk during #COVID is now out in Social Science&Medicine.

Did dating apps help or hinder safety during COVID among LGBT and heterosexual people?

Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

The Unloved Curriculum: Teaching Research Methods and ‘Demonstrably Alive’ Sociology - Les Back, Michaela Benson, Maisie Tomlinson, 2025 This article reflects our experiences of developing a more sociable approach to teaching qualitative methods. Through a set of examples drawn from our teaching ...

Excited to see this article published in Sociology about Fieldwork Fables, a series of research films, using actors, that myself and Profs Les Back and Michaela Benson made. Used in over 100 universities for methods teaching! shorturl.at/a3WDC @morgancentre.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social

Storying the unspeakable: narrating the experiences of suicide-bereaved siblings Using creative elicitation interviews, Laura Towers seeks to learn more about how, through narration, siblings bereaved by suicide come to make sense of their loss and grief over time

This week is #GriefAwarenessWeek, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @ltowers728.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social seeks to learn how through narration, siblings bereaved by suicide come to make sense of their loss and grief over time. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ltow...

Student voices in the archives The online Rylands Lunchtime Seminar Series.

SEMINAR: Student Voices in the Archives
🗓️ 1-2pm, Thurs 11 Dec(Online)
🗣️Sue Heath & Grant Collier
Explore student life through UoM archives
Part of the @thejohnrylands.bsky.social lunchtime seminar series
@uomsociology.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/student-vo...

Gender Studies ‘This ambitious book offers the reader the opportunity to think about gender in a multidisciplinary way. Written in a clear and accessible style, the authors provide interesting case study examples to...

📖New book:

Gender Studies: An interdisciplinary approach

By @sophierwoodward.bsky.social & @kath070.bsky.social & published by @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/gen...

EXHIBITION: Hulme Nannas' exhibition of (in)visibility, community and urban change

6-8pm Weds 5 Nov 2025, Manchester Museum

🎨Art
🗣️short talks
🍰food
🎵music!

#McrESRCFest #ESRCFestival
@uomsoss.bsky.social @muarg.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hulme-nann...

Spare hour over half-term? Join Chata the golden retriever on Thurs 30th October for a family-friendly foray into what ‘work’ looks like from a dog’s perspective at the PMH in Manchester, part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences @morgancentre.bsky.social @uomsociology.bsky.social @ukri.org

Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement The inaugural lecture of Professor Kate Reed, Department of Sociology.

INAUGURAL LECTURE:

🗣️ Start or end of life? Advancing the Sociology of Life, Death & Bereavement - Kate Reed

📅4-5pm Tues 29 Oct 2025
📌In person (University of Manchester) or online
🎟️Free, register via Eventbrite
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/start-or-e...

Portrait of Gary Younge and Faber members logo and 10th anniversary badge

FABER LECTURE:
🗣️Pigeonholed: Creative freedom as an act of resistance - Gary Younge

📅 7pm Thurs 16 Oct 2025 (doors 6.30pm)
📍Friends’ Meeting House, Manchester
🎫Tickets & more info on Faber website

faber.co.uk/product/uom-...

@briony.bsky.social @ltowers728.bsky.social @sophierwoodward.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social

The Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives - YouTube

📺Watch our new video series introducing key concepts in the sociology of families & personal life. Please share if you know anybody teaching or studying these topics!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

📝'Theorising Ageing in Place During Urban Regeneration: A Spatial Approach'
New article by Pippa Winship, @tinebuffel.bsky.social & Vanessa May
@muarg.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Capital of Life in Death: How Bereaved Individuals Mobilise Cultural and Social Capital in UK Death Administration This paper uses Bourdieu's concepts of cultural and social capital to critically examine death administration in the UK. Death administration relates to a set of tasks that bereaved individuals (usua....

📝Capital of Life in Death: How Bereaved Individuals Mobilise Cultural and Social Capital in UK Death Administration
@ltowers728.bsky.social & Kate Reed in @bjsociology.bsky.social on the sociology of bereavement admin
@uomsoss.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Relational dynamite: Engagements with kinship at the interface of donor conception and DNA testing This article investigates how Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing (DTCGT) affects people impacted by donor conception by bringing empirical data on how…

New article:

✨Relational dynamite: Engagements with kinship at the interface of donor conception & DNA testing

Petra Nordqvist, Leah Gilman, Caroline Redhead, Marie Fox, Nicky Hudson @fimaccallum.bsky.social @lucyfrith.bsky.social from #ConnecteDNA

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you didn't get a place this year you can fill in this form to get a message when the 2026 summer school opens for registration forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Researchers gain new skills at Methods@Manchester Summer School The Methods@Manchester annual Summer School returned this week, giving researchers the exciting opportunity to meet and connect with their peers while gaining new social science and humanities methods...

We really enjoyed teaching our 'Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research' course at the @methodsmcr.bsky.social summer school - thanks to our great students!
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/r...

✨Resilience and viral safety among LGBQ+ and heterosexual people using dating apps in the COVID-19 era: Data snapshot
Brian Heaphy, @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social & Qian Xiong
figshare.com/articles/pre...

Check out the work of #Austerity and Altered Life Courses project here: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centr...

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